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22 Oct 01 - graffiti; ULS; e-billing; Chinook Book; manufacturing; Sept. 11; small houses ** WASTE PREVENTION FORUM ** -- A project of the National Waste Prevention Coalition -------- Forum archive: http://www.reuses.com/nwpcarchive -------------------- From Nancy Helm, City of Seattle, Office of Sustainability & Environment, Seattle, WA, following up on the 10/17/01 posting asking about less-toxic ways to remove graffiti: Does anyone know of a P2 (pollution prevention) best-practices manual for graffiti removal? If not, does anyone think that such a thing would be useful? Thanks. E-mail: Nancy (DOT) Helm (AT) ci (DOT) seattle (DOT) wa (DOT) us Phone: (206) 684-5518 -------------------- From Tony Kingsbury, Dow Plastics, Midland, MI, responding to the 10/17/01 posting that the ULS (Use Less Stuff) Report website is back online: I was sure glad to see the ULS website up and running from Bob Lilienfeld. I miss the ULS Report. I did take the opportunity to go look through some of the old issues. My favorite was the Jan/Feb 1995 issue with the headline "Lose 60 Pounds and Eat All You Want." What a great headline, and corresponding source reduction information. I'd be curious what other people's favorites were. E-mail: rakingsbury [A T] dow [D O T] com Note - The ULS Report website is at: http://www.use-less-stuff.com -------------------- From Tom Watson, King County Solid Waste Division, Seattle, WA, and the National Waste Prevention Coalition: Many companies now offer online billing (also known as electronic billing, or e-billing), which reduces paper waste. Below is a link to a partial list of financial services companies, insurance companies, telecommunications companies and utility companies that offer this service. This list is on the website of CheckFree, which is one of the main providers of online billing services for companies. http://www.checkfree.com/ebp/detail/1,5857,175,00.html Scroll down. Note: I first saw this website mentioned in the "Chinook Book," an environmental resource guide and coupon book sold in the Seattle, Portland and Minneapolis-St. Paul areas (in the Twin Cities it's called the "Blue Sky Guide"). For information on these guides, see their website at: http://www.chinookbook.net (Chinook is a Native American word (from the Pacific Northwest), and Chinook salmon is another name for king salmon.) -------------------- Link to the online brochure for the ninth annual Great Lakes Region Waste Reduction and Energy Efficiency Workshop, to be held Oct. 30 in Livonia, MI (first seen in the Waste Reduction Tips newsletter): http://www.deq.state.mi.us/ead/eosect/brochure/WREE2001Brochure.pdf (This brochure is in Adobe Acrobat personal document format.) The conference is sponsored by the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality. It includes tracks on reuse/recycling, design for the environment and pollution prevention. Many of the sessions are aimed primarily at manufacturing companies. -------------------- Link to an article by Wendell Berry in the 10/11/01 Grist online magazine, about Sept. 11 and sustainability (forwarded by Carl Woestwin and Marcia Rutan): http://www.gristmagazine.com/grist/imho/berry101101.asp?source=daily ------------------- Link to an article by Ross Atkin in the 10/17/01 Christian Science Monitor, about how some people are choosing smaller houses (forwarded by Marcia Rutan and Carl Woestwin): http://www.csmonitor.com/2001/1017/p14s1-lihc.html - end -